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THE CLOCKMAKER.
[Sec ond Series, j
Ih.c Ctcokmaktr. or, th» Sayings and. Doings oj
Samuel Slick of Slickville.
The present tour is presumed to be from W ind
sor to Shelburne, ami so along the coast to Hali
fax ; and during its continuance the Clockmaker
is made to make good use ot the time in com
municating his pertinent and dry remarks to his
fellow traveller, on the voluntary system, elective
councils, slavery, smuggling, CanUda, shampoou
iug the English, and twenty other matters of no
small interest, which though often treated jocu
larly, are'always treated significantly aud ably.
The chapter on the voluntary system is capital
ly illustrated Iby the opposed characters and
practices of a hypocritical spouter and a truly re
ligious pastor ; and Slick shines in all his glory as
a sketcher of the first, who happens ffi be an old
schoolfellow of his, whom he finds most comfort
ably and luxuriously “located” in one ol the new
cities lately built in Alabama. He prefaces the sto
ry of his visit with an axiom of general applica
tion.
“Whoever has the women is sure of the men,
you may depend, squire ; openly or secretly, di
recly or indirectly, they do contrive, somehow or
another, to have their own way in the end, and,
tlio’ the men have the reins, the women tell’em
which way to drive. Now, if ever you go for to
canvass for votes, always canvass the wives, and
you are sure of the husbands.”
Having inttoduced himself to Ahab MoMrum’s
richly furnished and beautiful house the follow
ing narrative describes the rest: —
“1 was most darnted to sit down on the chairs,
they were so splendid, for fear I should spile ’em,
there was mirrors and vases, and lamps, and pic
tures, and crinken crankums and notions of all
sorts and sizes in it. It looked like a bazar a’
most,, it was fill’d with sncli an everlasting’ sight
of curiosities. The loom was considerable dark,
too for the blinds was shot, and I was skar’d to
move for fear w’doin’ mischief. Presently in
comes Ahab, slowly sailin’ in, like a boat droji
pin’ down stream to a calm, with a pair o’ purple
slippers on, and a figured silk dressin’ gound, and
carrying a’most beautiful-bound book in his hand.
May I presume, says he, to inquire who 1 have
the ouexpected pleasure ol seeing this momin ?
If you’ll gist throw open one o’ them are shutters,
says 1,1 guess the light will save us the trouble of
a\in, names. 1 know who you be by your voice
any how, tho’ its considerable softer than it was
ten years ago. I’m Sam Slick, says I—what’s
left o’me at least. Verily, said he, friend Sam
uel >’m glad to see you, and how did you leave
that excellent mail aud distinguished scholar, the
Rev. Mr. Hopewell, and my good friend your fa
ther?—fs the old gentleman still alive? If so.
he must auow be ripe full of years as he is full of
honours. Your mother, I think I heer’d, was
dead-—gathered to her fathers—peace be with her!
She had a good and a kind heart. I loved her as
a child: hut the Lord taketh whom he loveth.
Ahab, says I, I have but a few 1 minutes to stay with
you, and if you think to draw the wool over my
eyes, if might perhaps teke you a longer time than
you are athinking on, or than 1 have to spare:—.
there are some friends yeu’ve forgot to inquire af
ter tho’—there’s Pol’y Bacon and her little boy.
Spare me, Samuel, spare me, my friend, says he,
open not that wound afresh, 1 beseech thee. W ell,
nitys I none o’your none sense then; shew ine
then into a room where I can spit, and feel to home,
and put my feet upon the chairs w ithout adama
gin’ things, and I II sit and smoke and chat with
you a f'«* minutes ; in fact I don’t care if 1 stop
and breakfast with you, for I feel kinder peckish
tiiis momin’. Sam, says he, atakin hold of my
liir.J you were always right up and down, and as
i. •rai a shingle in your dealing’s—l can trust
u, I know, but mind, —and he put his lingers on
i: ps —-n ini is the word :by gones are by goncs
vo;; wouldn’t blew an old chum among his
Is. would you ? I scorn a nasty, dirty, mean
:.:ti a, rays 1, as Ido a nigger. Come, fuller me,
ri.tr, s.tys he, and he led me into a hack room,
~v.h an oncarpeted painted floor, furnished plain,
i . Diiie shelves in it, with books, and pipes, anti
; cigars, pig-tail, and what not. Here’s liber
• -hail, said lie, chew, smoke or spit as you please;
io as you like here: we’ll throw oft" all reverse
v; but mind that cursed nigger; he lias a foot
.;c a cat and an ear for every keyhole—don’t
talk too loud. Well, Sam, said he, I’m glad to
see you too, my boy, it puts me in mind, of old
times. Many’s the lark you and I have had to
gether in Slickville, when old bunks—(it made
mes! art, that lie meant Mr. Hopewell, and it made
me feel kinder dandry at him, for I wouldn't let
my one speak disrespectful of him afore me for
othin’, 1 know,) —when old hunks thought we
ias abed. Them was happy days—the days o’
light heels and hearts. I often think on ,em, and
iiiink on ’em too with pleasure. Well, Ahab,
•"tvs I, I don,t gist altogether as I do; there are
some things we might gist as well a,most have left
•'•one, I reckon; but what’s done is done, that’s a
iact. Ahem! said he, so loud, 1 looked round
m»l I seed two niggers bringin’ in the breakfast,
and a grand one it was—tea and coffee, and Ind
ffiau corn, and cakes and hot bread, and cold bread,
fish, fowl, and flesh, roased boiled, and fried ; pre
sarves, pickles, fruits; iu short, every thing a’
most you could think on. You needn't wait, said
Ahab, to the blacks ! I'll ring for you when 1 want
you, we'll help ourselves. Well, wheu I looked
round and seed this crittei nlivin’ this way, on the
fit o, the land, up to his knees in clover like, it did
pose me considerable to know how he worked it
so cleverly, for he was thought always, as, a boy,
to be rather more than half onder baked, consider
able soft like. So, says I, Ahab says I, I calcu
late you’re like the cat we used to throw out of
the minister's garret, window, when we was a
boardiu* there to school. How so, Sam? Said
he. Why says I, you always seem to come on
your feet somehow or another. You have got a
plaguy nice thing of it here ; that’s a fact and no
mistake (the critter had-three thousand dollars a
year:) how on airth did you manage it! I wish
iu my heart I had ataken up the Lade o’preachin’
too; when it does hit it does capitally,that,s sar
tin. Why says he, if you'll promise not to let on
to any one about it, I’ll tell you. I’ll keep dark
about it, you may depend, said I. I’m not a man
that can’t keep nothin’ in my gizzard, but go right
off and blart out all I hear. I know a thing worth
two of that 1 guess. Well, says he, it’s done by a
new rule I made in grammar—the feminine gen
der is mere worthy than the neuter, and the neu
ter more worthy than the masculine: I gist soft
sawder the woman. It ’taint every man will let
you tickl" him ; and if you do, he’ll make faces at
y in enough to frighten you into fits; but tickle
Lis wife, and it’s electrical—he’ll laugh like any
thing. The) arc tho forred wheels, start them
aud, the hi ud ones toiler of course. Now it’s
jnajtly women that tend mectin’ here; the men
iuks have t heir politics and trade to talk over, aud
what not, and aiu’t time; but the ladies go con- 1
sulcrahle rigular, and w e have to depend on them,
the dear critters. I gist lay Hffself out to get the
blind side of them, and I sugar and gild the pill so
as t 0 make it pretty to look at and easy to 9wallar.
Last Lord’s day, for instance, I preached on the
death of the widder’s son. Well, 1 drew such a
pictur°? the l o ne watch at the sick bed, the pa
tience, the kindness, the tenderness of woman’s
hearts, their forgiving dispositions—(the Lord for
give me f° r saying so, tho’, for if there is a crea
ted criftef that never forgives it’s women; they
seem to forgive a wound on their pride, and it
skins over and looks all heal’d up like, but touch
’em on the sore spot ag’in, and see how cute their
memory is) —their sweet temper, soothers of grief,
dispensers of joy, ministerin’ angels. T make all
the virtues ofthe feminine gender always, then I
wound up with a quotation from Walter Scott.
Thev all like poetry, do the ladies ; aud Shakes
peret Scott and Byron, are amazin’ favorites ; they
go down much better than old fashioned staves o’
Watts.
“Oh woman, in our hour of ease,
Uncertain, cov, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.”
If I didn’t touch it off to the tunes it’s a pity. I
■ never heerd you preach so well, says oue, since
you was located here. I drew it from natur’says
I, a sqeezin of her hand. Nor never so touchin’,
savs another. You know my moddle, says I,
lookin’ spooney on her. I fairly shed tears, said a
third : how ofteu have you drawn them from me ?
Says t. So true says they, and so nateral, and ua
tur’ is what w e call eloquence. I feel quite proud,
savs I, and considerable elated mv admired sisters
.for who can judge so well as the ladies ofthe
truth of the description of their own virtues? I
must say I felt somehow kinder, inadequate to the .
task too,' I said- -for the depth and strength and
beauty of the female heart passes all umierstand-
When I left ’em I heard ’em say, ain’t he a
dear man, a feelin’ man, a sweet critter, a’most a
splendid preacher; none o’your mere moral lec
tures, but areal right down genuine gospel preach
er. Next day I received to the tune of one hun
dred dollars in cash, and fifty dollars produce,
presents from one and another. The truth is, if a
minister wautsto be popular, he should remain sin
gle for then the galls all have a chance for him;
the moment he marries he’s up a tree, his
flint is fixed then : you tnay depend its gone goose
with him arter that; that’s a fact. No Sam
they aie the pillows ofthe temple, the dear little
criters. And I’ll give you a wrinkle for your
horn, per haps you ain't ger yet, and it may be
pome use to you when you go down a tradin’
with the benighted colonists in the outlandish
British provinces. The road to the head lies
through the heart. Pocket, you mean, instead
of head, 1 guess said I; if you dont travel that
road full chisel it’s a pity. Well 6ays I, Ahab,
when I go to Slickville I’ll gist, tell Mr. Hope
well wliat a most a precious, superfine, superior
darn’d rascal you have turned out; if you ain’t
No. 1, letter A. 1 want to know who is, that’s all.
You do best all, Sam, said he; it’s the system
that’s vicious, and not the preacher. If I didn’t
give ’em the soft Sawder they would tieilher pay
me nor hear me ; that’s a fact. Are yon so soft
in the horn now, Sam, as to suppose the galls
would take the trouble to come to hear me tell ’em
of their corrupt natur’ anil fallen condition ; and
first thank me and then pay uie for it ?—Very en
tertainin' that’ to tell ’em the worms will fatten on
their pretty little rosy cheeks, and that their sweet
plump flesh is nothin' but grass, flourishin’ to-dav
and to be cut down, withered and rotten to mor
row, ain’t it! It ain’t in the natur o’ things, if
I put them out o’ conceit o’ themselves, l eant
put them in conceit of trie ;-or that they will
come down handsome, and do the thing genteel,
its gist onpossible. It warn’t me made the system,
but the system made me. The voluntary don’t
work well. System or no system, said I, Ahab
you are Ahab still, and Ahab you'll be to the eend
of the chapter. You may deceive the women by
•the soft sawder, and yourself by talkin’ about sys
tems, but yen won’t walk into me so easy, I know,
t ain’t pretty at all. Now, said I, Ahab I told
you 1 wouldn’t blow you, nor will I. I will nei
ther speak «f things past nor things present. I
know you wouldn’t Sam, sa>d he : you were id
ways a good feller. But it’s on one condition,
says I, and that is, that you allow Polly Bacon a
hundred dollars a year ; she was a good gall and
a decent gall when you know’d her, and sire’s tr.
great distress* now to Slirksville, I tell you.
That’s unfair, that’s otikind Sam, said he. that’s
not the clean thing ; I cant afford it; it’s a breach
o’ confidence this; but you got me on the lrip,
and I can’t help myself, say fifty dollars,and I will.
Done, says I, and mind yottr’e up to the notch, for
I’m in airnest —there’s no mistake. Depend up
on me, said he. And, Sam, said he a shakin’
hands along with me at partin’, excuse me ntv
good feller, but I hope I may never have the
pleasure to see your face agin’. Ditto, says I, but
mind the fifty dollars a year, or you will see me to
a surtinty —goodb’ye.”
London A up. 15.
THE AMERRICAN MINISTER AND
MR. O’CONNELL.
23. Portland place Aug. 9.
Sir : My attention has beeu called to the publi
cation, in the last Spectator, of a speech which
purports to have been delivered by you at a pub
lic meeting in Birmingham, in which yon are re
ported to have used the following langugc in re
lation to myself.
•1 believe their very ambassador here is a slave
breeder, one of those beings who rear up slaves
for the purpose of traffic. Is it possible that
America would send here a mau who traffics in
blood, and who is a disgrace to human nature?’
1 desire to know from you whether this is a cor
rect report of what you said on that occasion, and
with that view address to you this communication.
I am, sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON.
To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. fee.
16 Patl Mall, Aug. 10
Sir. In consequence ofyour letter of yesterday’s
date, I examined the report of iriv -speech at Bir
mingham, in rhe Spectator of the 4th inst. and
have no hesitation iu saying, that the paragraph
you have selected is not a correct report of what
I said on that occasion.
The very next sentence, does, to iny mind,
show that the report could not be correct, and hav
ing examined another report since, as well as
from distinct recollection, I repeat, that tho report
is not correct.
1 have the heiwr to be, sir.
THE GEORGIA MIRROR.
Your very eb’t servant. '
DANIEL O’CONN EL.
To A. Stevenson. Esq.
23. Portland Place , Aug. 11.
Sir: Ihavethelionorto acknowledge the receipt \
if your note of last evening, in answer to the one |
from myself ofthe preceding day.
Presuming that you intended your reply as a
disavowal ofthe offensive expressions contained
in that part of vour* reported speech which had
allusion to myself, and to which your attention
was called. 1 am satisfied with the answer you have
given.
As an incorrect report of your speech has been
male public through the press, 1 beg to inform
you that 1 deem it due to myself, that the corres
pondence which has taken place should also be pub
lished.
I ant, Sir,
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A- STEVENSON.
To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. fie.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
MR. STEVENSON AND MR. O’CONNELL.
Long’s Hotel, London, Aug. 15, 1838.
Dear Sir—Knowing the deep interest which you
foe I in every thing which coueerns the American
Minister, f hasten to enclose you by the packet
ofto-morrow from Liverpool, his correspondence
with Mr. O’Connell.
You will of course have seen the reported bru
tal outrage, which this Irish Caliban made of
both our country and Mr. Stevenson on tiie first
of August at Birmingham , w here the abolition of
the negro apprenticeship in the Britsh West In
dies was celebrated with very extraordinary mani
festations of blackguardism aud abuse.
The moment Mr. Stevenson read Mr. O’Con
nell’s speech, he hastened to my lodgings, and
requested ine to convey such a message to Mr.
O’Conell, as should leave no doubt of its import.™
As I was perfectly aware, if he placed himself : n
the hands of this patriot, (who is as false to his
friends, as he is mean and treacherous to his ene
mies.) some unfair advantage would be taken,
and that if Mr. S. and myself were not lianded o
ver to the police, a message would only irritate a
fresh cataract of Billingsgate from the most co
pious fountain of low vituperation any where to
be found in her Majesty's dominions—-in this
stage of the preceding, I was so fortunate as to
have the councils of that gallant and inteligent
officer of our Navy, Capt. Mathew C. Perry, and
Dr. M’Cauley of Maryland, a gentleman who is
also so highly esteemed and so advantageously
known by us all at home, who both liappeued ac
cidentally to be in Loudon. These gentlemen
suggested to me from a much better knowledge
of Mr. O’Connell’s character than I possessed
myself, that he ought to be approached iu the form
of an enquiry, tn the first instance, whether the
report of Iris speech was correct—and if he avowed
it, that then I should wait upon him with an
open letter, to ask whether lie held himself
tesponsible, according to thsense in which
such responsibility, is acknowledgeed for an
‘outrage unprovoked and monstrous upon the
feelings of a gentleman bearing so high and
distinguished a personal and official relation to his
own Government, as the Minister of the U. 8. If
he did avow such a responsibility, at once to ten
der him a peremptory challenge, w ithout an “if”
or "but” in the whole context, in strict conformi
ty to the instructions of my principal.
As Mr. O’Connell, however, had publicly a
vowed, from the fact of his once having accident
ally killed lus man,(free doubtless of even the crime
of homicide, as I question from his valor, wheth
er he ever took sight at his opponent.) that he will
not fight, whilst he claims a special immunity and
impunity to abuse any man not only in the
United Kingdom, but in the whole world; 1 was
satisfied that no satisfaction could have been ob
tained, even by shis course. I therefore readily
consented to apian which enabled Mr. O-C. to
lie himself out of the difficulty—-which -he had
successfully accomplished at an expense winch,
considering the small amount of character which,
the Rant Mastor of Ireland has left, he could ill
afford.
That Mr. O’Connell not only used the language
reported and attributed to him in the London Sun
and Spectator, but was more offensive, there can
be uo doubt.
I shall not leave England without going to Bir
mingham, investigating the facts and fixing the lie
upon his brass in indelible characters.
Indeed it is said that he made, likewise, in bis
Speech, an outrageous attack upon the character
ofthe great parent ofottr country—a man the pu
rity ofwliose memory is outraged by tba very ap
proach es such ’a vulgar miscreant as O'Connell
unquestionably ie.
Many very worthy persons in our own country,
who are ever very sensitive on a!i '•ubjects con
nected with a delicate sense of Conor, may share
with the universal sentiment of Eugland,that a man
wlio, like O’Connell, has been voted by a large
majority of the House ofComvnon, a public cal
umniator, is benath the notice of a gentleman ; and
I assure you, this opinion is beginning to obtain
sncli general authority here t that no member of
Parliament would any more think of calling the
Great Begggar-man out, than the shabby mendi
cant who stands at the door of St. Stephens, and
begs “vour honor for a penny.” But, both Mr.
Stevenson and myself, know what Virginia asks
and expects of her sons. At least, that they
should at all times show a willingness to resent
any iudignity offered abroad to their country in
their own person.
lt tbe correspondence had taken a turn which
would have rendered it necessary for me in person
to have borne an essage to Mr. O’Connell for Mr.
Stevenson, I had determined to have taken Capt.
Perry with me as a witness; for O’Connell is. I am
told, always surrounded by a goodly portion of his
tail, in tl\e shape of ruffians, only inferior in bru
tality to their great prototype- Witluyit provo
king the slightest aggression on our feelings or
persons, »ve should nevertheless have ocen pre
pared to have met it. We should have endeav
ored in this contingency to have made ourselves
as ugly customers ns possible to the immaculate
patriot and his disciples—-which we would have
had some claim, to both Capt. Perry and myself
have, in avoidupois, a!:on» as much Irish blood in
otr veins as the august Milesian himself.
If. however, iu an Irish scrimmage. I had acci
dentally stopped iiis wind, I feel confident my es
cape would been connived at by the English peo
ple ; for I should lutve entitled myself by this act
to their everlasting gratitude for expelling in self
defence , one ofthe greatest pests, with which, in
His inscrutable wisdom, the Almighty lias plea
sed to indict on the British Empire—a man who,
having extorted nnt money from the po 0 r deluded
-paupers of his own country, is selling f or a large
sized lump of Whig patronage in Ireland, the iu
terests of a people he has dishonored and betrayed.
1 feel that 1 owe you au apology for using such
abuse against this mau. But is not our country
aud our couutr meu the theme of his perpetual,
unceasing scandal, more foul and audacious
than the civillised world has ever yet witnessed ?
If Ishmaelstrikes, shall we notstrike too ? Chris
tian charity itself would pardon a retaliation so pro
voked aud so justifiable.
1 need not say that our friend has in this, under
a 1 the circumstances ot the case acted in all res
pects in a manner worthy ofthe old Commonwealth
from which he came.
Your obedient servant,
J. HAMILTON, of S.C.
Thos. Ritchie, Esq.
From the Missouri Republican.
WESTERN INDIANS.
We publish below a copy of the letter of the Sec
retary of War to Gen. Gaines, and a copy of a late
despatch from Gen. Gaines to the Department,
giving his reasons for not attending the council.
The conduct of the Cherokees io this matter is
somewhat singular, and their refusal to give any
explanation of tueir intentions is at least, ground
sufficient ,o justify the Government in keeping a
vigilant eye upon their movements. That there
is great heart-burnings and much discontent
amongst than), we have the assurance of individ
uals who have lately been with them. The move
ment of Gen. Gaines will not be without its effect,
to keeping them still, and suppressing any hostile
intei tious they may have entertained.
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDEDCF..
WAR DEPARTMENT, l
Aug. 25th, 1838.
Sir: — l have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter ot the Bth inst., covering
oue from Lt Col. Mason ol Uic Ist. Dragoons.
The information communicated by that officer
is calculated to rouse our vigilance, aud every
effort ought to be made to ascerntain the motives
and real object of these moments among the In
dians. But upon mere rumor and conjecture,
however plausible, the E>ecutive does not think
itself authorized to adopt the measure you pro
pose. Indeed the President has no longer the
legal power to accept the services ol volunteer*,
the law that conferred tt having expired on the Ist
r f May last.
The commissioners of Indian Affairs has been
instructed to direct the Agents oi the United
States to proceed to the council ground without
delay, and to demand an explanation ol these
movements among the bordering tribes; and you
will be pleased to cause a sufficient escort ol
dragoons to he furnished to accompany them.
The regular force myour Division shall be aug
mented as soon as practicable to do so; and the
Department reposes on your vigilance to be in
formed of all further hostile indications on the
part of the Indians on that frontier.
1 have the honor to be, w ith great respect, sir,
your obedient servant,
(Signed) J. IL POINSETT.
To Major General Gaines commanding Western
Division U. S. Army, St. Louis, Mo.
A true copy— J. C. Reid, Aid-de-camp.
Head-Quarters, Western Division, j
Steamboat Platte, near Boonvillc , V
September 10th, 1838. )
Sir:— lliad the houor in the last month to
notify your Excellency of the invitation given by
the Cherokees to the Chiefs and principal Braves
of the Indian Nations, inhabiting the country near
our Western Frontier north of Red River (excep
ting the Usages and Kansas,) to attend a great
council to be balden about the 11th of the present
month, at the Cherokee Council House on the
w aters ot tne Arkansas.
Having intimated to the War Department my
intention to visit the council, 1 deemed it advisable
first to ascertain whether the chiefs of the nations
west of the State of Missouri w ould or would not
attend.
I have now the satisfaction to announce to your
Excellency the fact that two of the most respec
table of these nations—namely—the Delaw.ares
and Shawuees, have positively refused to comply
with the invitation of the Cherokees to attend the
council; aud that these nations have assigned for
their non-atteudance die-Very prudent reason that
the Cherokees, in their invitation had failed to
explain to the nations invited , the object of the in
tended council. It was therefore interred by the
Delawares aDd Shawuees that the nation calling
the couucd, had some sinister motive in this art
ful concealment, such as might give just cause of
Qlfence to the United States. They had there
fore manifestly determined not to '-attend “the
great council.”
Lt. Colonel Mason reports to me that he had
not been able to ascertain whether the Chiefs or
Braves of any of the nations west or north-west
of the State of Missouri had consented to attend,
but he was under the impression that most of them
would follow the praiseworthy example of the
Delawares and not attend the council. Such a
determination would effectually prostrate any hos
tile schemes which the Mexiean party of the
Cherokees,may have had in view against our fron
tier.
Believing the conduct of tire sc friendly Indians
on this occasion, will operate as a salutary rehuke
upon the restless and intriguing part of the
Cherokee nation, and their old friends, the faith
less part of the Creeks and Semiuoles—a rebuke
w ell calculated to restrain, eliection, their spirit of
intrigue and hostility, m deeming the moral effect
of such a rebuke coming from their red neigh
bors, to be altogether better than if it had come
from tne, or from any other officer of the Govern
ment ; 1 have determined not to pay so much res
pect to the “great council,” as to make it the visit
which I had intended. .
Brigadier General Arbuekle, the commanding
General of the 2d Department of this Division of
the Army, is stationed near the spot where the
council is to be held; and having been Cot some year
past on duty near the southern Indians, is well
acquainted with the character of their chiefs, and
will not lad to inform himself of their designs and j
keep in check. I expect soon to re- \
port of their conduct in the great council, and !
should it contain any thing particularly interesting ;
to the State ol Missouri, 1 will lose no time in
sending you a copy.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant.
(Signed) EDMUND P. GAINES,
Maj. Gen. I . S. Army, < 'ommandin <r.
A true copy— J. C. Reid, Aid-de-Camp.
Men would live exceeding quiet, if fwo w ords
mine and thine, twere taken away.
Time \s the herald of truth.'
From the Georgia Journal.
We have a great deal of the proposed
the Executive and monied power. Not lt b . f " 01
v°,ce, these ast.tute politician* mean a se„JJ 1 '
we understand the phrase. The action J n , h</li
Jessica do not square with each other TbHif* 0 ’
idem possesses the Executive power, no one Tn
deny. 1 hey propose to invest the P r T t H
with the power to appoint men to at! the ,m
winch they design to create, to receive and l
the publ.c revenue. Ifhe can dismiss from offi*
the man who can dismiss them from office i*
control the revenue. The Secretary oftheT “
sury .s to be invested will, discretionary L,T'
tty to increase the bonds required as L? h ° r '
the Collectors of the revenue The p nt - v
can dismiss from office the Secretary of thT'P CDt
sury. Gen. Jackson dismissed Mr n„o , a *
cause he would not do an unconstitutionif
Now let us a ,am.liar case. Our friJn i .
neighbor, John Smith, has been an earn?, amJ
decided adherent of the President, he j,
an honest man, though a poor one. I„
quence of m„ t *om.cs, he receives the am on,
meot o. oo..cctois ot the Customs fortheVort nf
Savanna.., mm a bond is required of him t 0 ri,
amount oi <w»,<>oo. lie executes the t 7 ,
tune it is discovered that an i, 1 llort
made on the people in his vicinity ’j j? be
ed by the Secretary (piivatr ly) to h, a ,' r T
cular manner towards the men-hants fcJvini bus’
mess with him. To adinmwi,-..,.,. ' ° U! “
be indulgent and accommodating TANARUS,
fori merchant, harsh and oppressive 1 1* PP ° B1 *
«"•" »•••> -ho— hr "ceTr
“SS'T'’'!' ““ ««l»rtiallv J an
.. * 'Secretary ofthe Treasury scruples to en
lorce the obedience ol this honest Collect.- r
i- a told b, i,l,tt-Stste*-
you will not do lt, retire and 1 « m / , 11
*'•» "ill ” K-rlwi,,:; sic" ! ,
Join. S.„i.h that his b „,„| Utoo ,
s-00 000 'liJur'T, fiive »'« «'• ' »
S-00.000, and it he fads, must leave the office
the office. gIVB 11,SeUOm,OUS securit .v, and leaves
Now here i« a palpable case, where the President
can control the officers who are to receive J
keep the publ.c revenue ! and if,here be any truth
til logic he must of course be able to control
he public revenue itself. Then already possess.
and o rr VP,,,,W[ ' r ’ , hCis enablc 'i to direct
mshoit, all offices invested with ffinnev power'
J T O l ,era tion the Van Buren party call a
lhvorre ! a Separation ! ! a total Divorce ! / ' Do
these impudent politicians suppose there are no
Dictionaries to be had, that they thus attempt
to swindle the country out of the 'meaning ofthe
English language ?
CONSEQUENCE OF “THE DIVORCE."
From the Madisonian.
The situation ofthe puhlid money at this time,
scattered all over the U States by tie order of Mr.
Secretaiy Woodbury , in defiance of the public Will
and in Direct violation of a positive law of ron
gress.
Congress having five times rejected the Sub
treasury scheme, which hail for its object (among
other tilings) the keeping of the public money by
Executive officers, appointed by and liable any
moment to be dismissed by the President, nearly
every body supposed, when Congress adjourned,
that when the banks resumed specie payment, the
deposite law of l83(i would compel the'Secretafy
to revoke his circular, issued shortly alter the
hanks suspended requiring the Receivers anil
( ol lector:; to keep the money and that it n-ould hr
deposited in banks to the'credit .of the Treasury,
as it had been previously. But what must be the
astonishment of Congress when they meet?
What must be the indignation of the People of
the United States, when they hear that the
public money is scattered over the country, in tin
hands ot Receivers ami Collectors, and that t ot .
single deposite bank has been selected nor is it in
tended that one should be seUe-.-ted.
W ho can tell what these .Receivers and Col
lectors are doing with the public money W’lint
to prevent them from doing it l What check
has the Government over them under this beauti
tul financial system of Mr. Secretary Woodbery
'1 hey make their’own returns to the Treasury
Department, and state what they please in them.
How can the Secretary know that the money rep
resented to be in their hands is actually there!
i he banks under this system have made wo returns
to it. If the Collectors deposit the money in bank
they have it placed their to their own private cred
it, and can check for it at any time for tlieir earn
private purpose. Under the deposite law of 1836,
the Collectors and Receivers were required to de
posite the revenue they collected in the bank,
every week, to the credit of the Treasurer ofthe
United States and, of course, when thus deposited,
it could not be touched by any one without the au
thority of a Treasury draft. The banks were re
quired to make regular returns every week of the
deposites made by the Collectors and Receivers;
and, by looking at these bank returns, the Secre
tary could always detect any delinquency on the
part ol the Collectors and lleceiveres. But hav
ing separated Bank and State," (to use the un
meaning slang of the day,) he lias separated l he
public money from all sorts of safeguard over it.
The Collectors can at any time use, the public
money without the Government’s knowing any
thiug about it; and, if it should be misapplied or
embezzled, where is the security? The Collec
tors at New York collect during the year, 12,000,-
000 dollars, and he gives security iu perhaps fifty
or one hundred thousand dollars the penalty ot
his bond ?
The banks under the deposite law gave any se
curity that was required besides the security ol
government was perfectly secure and will not Use
by them a single dollar, unles by one ol the Sec
retnry's family banks at Boston.
But this great invention of modern finance which
is to immortalize its wise authors, — “the separa
tion of Bank and State"—why what a perfect
farce it is f Is it supposed that the People are to
be eternally made the laipcs « (huntings, at:tl to
be deceived by the sound of catch phrases ?
The whole amount oftliis new discovery in »*
nance, of “separating Bank and State cotisits-in
depriving the Government of the means which
the banks would afford it of detecting misappltra
tion of the public money and the better security of
its safekeeping. In every other particular the
eoimexion is just as great as it ever was. Is td' 1
the revenue paid at this time in bank paper? ' s
it not deposited in the bank by the Collectors 8t
their own private credit, provided they dont On**
proper to use it. And cannot the banks use it or
bank upon it, (to use another modern phrase,)
when thus deposited in the same way they did be
fore, if it suits their interest to do au ? The rer»